I have to admit I was a little disappointed when Ben and I went to the library in town after I picked him up from school.  As you can see from the picture, he got his very first library card, and I thought he was anxious to use it.  But what he wanted wasn’t a book……some woman mentioned to him all the children’s DVDs.

Of course he really didn’t want any of those either, and DVDs cannot be checked out on his card anyway.  What he wanted was new superhero stuff he had not yet seen.  So we finally found a section full of “Justice League” DVDs and he picked out four.

I was happy he found them, and he seem thrilled, so I asked him if he wanted to go upstairs to pick out a book…….but he said no.  It troubled me a bit, as he used to love to be read to, and now he doesn’t.  He just exists in this weird little world of battling evil and all.  But I was tired and had a headache, so we headed home, DVDs in hand, and him pretty dang happy.

As we shared an after school snack, we watched a Justice League classic that had them saving the world once again.  I however had pulled a muscle in my back yesterday and the chairs downstairs were just too much, so we went up to my room where I could lay down and he could watch an episode of the next DVD before his mom came home to pick him up for his haircut.  I was still feeling guilty about not getting him a book, and wondered just how he was going to make it through school.

But what happened next was quite remarkable.  The episode was called “Christmas with the Joker,” or at least that’s what it said on the screen.  But Ben suddenly said “Oh no.”  So I said, “what?”  And he said, “Christmas Joker?  Really?”  My jaw just hit the floor……he was READING.  So I stopped the DVD and told him what he just did!  We were both smiling ear to ear.

Of course when Amanda got home he became Ben again.  It had only been 15 minutes so I said, “Tell mommy what you did, tell mommy what you did!”  And he looked at me with a puzzled look and said, “what?”

Thank you God for at least those 15 minutes of hope.  I am back to square one!  Oh well…..

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy+